I can't speak for the College of Ed, but my wife is a PhD candidate in
the Comm Arts department. She writes for grants all day. I asked her
last night and she told me that regardless of the email system they
never use email for grants. They use certified mail, fax, or telephone.
Laurence Bates wrote:
> In the College of Education there may be 30-40 faculty members working on 6
> or 7 figure deals at any given time. I think that it is fair to say that
> they are not aware that email is not a reliable enough transaction medium
> for their activities. I think that it is also fair to say that certain of
> them will "significantly perturbed" if their work turns out to be
> jeopardized through email delays.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Martinez [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] E-mail Issues
>
> Laurence,
>
> Firstly, the point to which you speak has never been an issue that we
> have been made aware of. Secondly, I would be very afraid of doing
> "major funding" strictly through email.
>
> How many people do you truthfully know who routinely run 7-figure deals
> over email? I think your concern is placed at a higher matter that I
> cannot address. The only thing I can comment on is that the greylisting
> system has been in place for several months. We had the idea on the
> table for several months before we wound up going live.
>
> Very few delays have stemmed from greylisting over the past months, but
> we have done our best to see to it that they get fixed. Other delays
> stem from numerous issues, our own email system not withstanding (for
> example, yesterday's slowness due to problems with our NetApp). But I
> have also seen problems on the sender's side, firewall issues, network
> issues, and client wonkiness to boot.
>
> If you feel your concerns are not being met, I'm afraid you will need to
> take them to some place higher than this list. I will continue to
> advise against the impracticality of doing major business deals over
> email without some other form of communication to be used as a backup.
> I would never even buy something as little as $10 off the Internet
> without knowing there was a phone number I could call in case there are
> problems.
>
> If there are further questions anyone has about greylisting I will be
> happy to do my best to answer them. It is a system that I play a large
> part in because not too many of my other coworkers care to use OpenBSD. :-)
>
> ./brm
>
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